Very different perspective on what being brain dead means. The family has to find the physician. They have to find the facility. They have to prove to us as well as the court that there is such a physician as well as such a facility that will take a deceased person on a ventilator. Reporter in a letter to the family and the attorney, the hospital outlined the conditions that would have to be met before she can be transferred to another facility. The hospital wants direct contact with the new facility to discuss what needs to be done. It also wants transportation details and the coroner needs to consent to any transfer. The coroner has now said they will not block any transfer. Nbc bay area news. It has happened again. Tomorrow is the 21st spare the air day in the past two months. You can see all that smog just hanging in the air. Our meteorologist is tracking the air quality for us. Were seeing the sunlight being filtered by two items in the skies right now. You have high clouds over San Francisco, but a bit of a brown haze from San Francisco and into palo alto. You can better see the smoggy skies. 53 degrees. Theyve been a real staple of the forecast here from november to december. We are at our 21st nearing halftime here of the air quality season for smoke pollution. We could see the 22nd being issued for sunday. Another spare the air day tomorrow. Sunday and monday, it looks like were going to get one more. That would be the 22nd on sunday. Monday and into tuesday, if winds strengthen enough, well hopefully be able to push some of the smoke away from the bay area. No changes in terms of seeing any rain in the forecast. Back to you. Happening now, ac transit workers are voting on new contracts. Some 1700 members of the union have until 7 00 tonight to vote on the tentative deal reached last friday. Theyve been negotiating with the union since march. Two previous deals were struck down. There was a sevenday cooling off period which expired sunday. The average bart fare will increase 19 cents. Making a round trip ticket 8. 40. This is the first in a series of scheduled fare hikes to raise 25 million for repairs. The money is expected to be used for improvements. Police are investigating a deadly shooting today just across the street from an elementary school. A man was shot. He crashed into a light pole outside of prescott elementary school. Police say they dont have a suspect or a motive for the shooting. This is oaklands 87th homicide of the year. The man killed in an avalanche in jacksonville, wisconsin was from the bay area. This is a photo of the man from facebook. His brother said in a written statement that he loved his family, his cal bears, his skiing buddies, and San Francisco. He was skiing with friends in an area called pucker face bull when he set off an avalanche at about 1 00 that buried him in the snow. A body found in the water in San Francisco has been identified. That body was seen floating near pier 48 last month. It is that of the missing 22yearold man. Police traced the call to the 500 block, but never found meadow. His sister filed a missing persons report. The body was difficult to identify. A navy veteran has turned up safe. He disappeared after he was discharged from San Francisco general on december 17th. Hes been a regular volunteer at Disaster Relief events. When he disappeared, the family mobilized their own search teams to find him in San Francisco. The father was thrilled to get that call. The detective on the line said, ive got some great news for you. We have located your son. Im driving on the freeway and that moment it just took a second for it to sink in. The family is not saying where hes been staying or why he hadnt contacted them earlier. They are glad to know it is safe. Tomorrow is a spare the air day. 21 of them altogether. Lets bring in sam brock with the latest on that. Reporter all you have to do is take a deep breath and in many cases you can feel that in your lungs, the tightening because of the very heavy air right now. The air quality is extremely poor. Folks have been trying to run and get their daily exercise in. Its very difficult to do, especially if youre asthmatic, sending many of those folks to the allergists office. On a clear day, you can see for miles and miles and miles. Just not on this day and not this couple in from georgia. Theres not much of a view because all you see is is it smog that you have here . Reporter thats exactly what it is. It is trapped by the valley and hemmed in by the mountains. It was difficult to walk the dog. Yeah, it was really hard to breathe. I could definitely feel it in my lungs. Reporter a series of aggressive fires has dumped more chemicals into the air making a bad situation worse. This situation is definitely more difficult than usual. Were seeing a lot more pollution than we typically do this time of year. Reporter a doctor estimated shes seen a 25 uptick in patients in the last two weeks. What we really need is we need a good rain. We need this inversion layer to go away and we need some wind to start collecting some of this particulate matter and bringing it out of the valley. Reporter pray for rain and well gladly take some handouts. You need rain, wind, or something . Well send you it from georgia because weve had plenty of it. Reporter its an inversion layer. You have the mountains trapping in the air. When i know theres no wind or rain to flush it out, that cold air ends up inverting. Thats bad for your health both short term and long term. Nbc bay area news. Back to you in the studio. Coming up, calling some parts of the bay area home. Looking live here at oakland. Its one of the places people are moving to and well explain why. Over a Million People tomorrow will lose their unemployment benefits. That story coming up from washington. Police are searching for this man. They say he stole a purse from a woman. The robbery happened around 1 30 last friday afternoon when the man grabbed a womans purse and took off. She pulled out a pot and beat him in the upper body. He managed to get away with her purse. Anyone with information call the police department. Could your information really be safe . New information tonight about the holiday hacking at target. It may be good news for you and your credit card. We have the latest. Little controversy about this. Reporter yeah, but for the most part it is good news. Target today saying it had technology in place to protect your credit card information. But hackers know all about that sort of protection and are likely working to get around it. Target says the information on your credit card is safe. Why . Because it is encrypted, which means it is in code. A code that is supposed to be cracked only by targets payment processor. Encryption can be broken over time. Reporter we spoke to a security expert that says dont be so sure. Its like the decoder ring that you had when you were a kid. What itll do is slow down the criminals. They have to decode that encryption. Reporter target is confident that your credit card numbers are safe and secure. Even as encryption gets more sophisticated, so do the criminals stealing your information. They still have the technology to decrypt them as well. Reporter those who track such things say it is still too early to be totally relaxed. Well, people with the American Humane Society closed the stock market today. Twitters shares fell 13 . The stock has gone quote, too far, too fast. It will be anything but a happy new year for longterm unemployed americans. The budget signed by president obama did not extend their benefits and longterm unemployment checks will stop coming as of tomorrow. Jennifer johnson joins us live from washington with what this means for the 1. 3 Million People who have been out of work for years. Reporter good evening. President obama wanted to extend these benefits, but it didnt pass congress. This is very bad news for over a million americans. Nancy has been out of work since september 2012. Her countless job applications have led nowhere and the single mom has more to stress about than just herself. I dont know how im going to pay the mortgage and keep the car. Its not just me. I have three boys to think of. Reporter longterm benefits kick in after state benefits run out. The average check is about 300 a week. It really matters to those people who arent working and their families. Reporter in january, senators will vote whether to extend benefits for three months. Its my hope that when the question is called, republicans will respond. The pressure of the nations eyes will be upon them. Reporter some republicans think this creates more expectations from the government. Some argue the number of longterm unemployed will rapidly grow. If this program is not renewed by 2014, well have well over 1. 3 million workers with no benefits. Reporter Congress Comes back to work january 6th and some democrats want to take a vote that day on extending benefits, but its going to be a tough battle to win. Back to you. The new population report shows alameda and santa clara counties are the most popular to move into the state last year. Particularly in oakland, fremont, and hayward. Heres the numbers. Alameda grew by well over 15,000 people. San francisco grew by about 5400 people. The summers massive fire at yosemite left a pile of bills for all the Fire Fighting costs. Administrators want to salvage some of the timber. Some environmentalists reject. Balance of the ecosystem would come with some rain. We need some wind. Were getting clouds, but not the type that you need to drop rain drops. You can see the back edge to a week weather system now reaching the peninsula. 55 degrees in San Francisco. 54 degrees. The sky is turning pink and orange outside right now. Gorgeous evening, but not so nice around palo alto. This is a look at the smoggy skies. Smoke just kind of filling into the basin between the Coastal Range to the west and the inland mountains to the east. Not enough wind to push this smoke out. There could be some changes by time we get into saturday night as winds pick up out of the north. Tomorrow another spare the air day. Its possible we could see one more on sunday. No chances of any rain in the forecast. The wind too light to move the smoke out of the bay area. The clouds did hold our temperatures down today. We had highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. There goes the back edge of the clouds. Clear skies to start tomorrow morning and just a few high clouds. More sunshine for your saturday. As that system moves on, north winds will pick up as High Pressure actually strengthens once again. These storm systems coming across the pacific, theyre tossing big waves. Polar jet stream way off to the north and rain staying to the north. Mild temperatures as we move through the weekend. No signs of any rain. This is the last weekend here for 2013. It does look like that rain is going to stay off to the north. New years eve plans like fine. Our microclimate forecast for tomorrow a bit warmer than today. Parts of the south bay seeing mid to upper 60s. Near the peninsula, also highs in the low to mid 60s tomorrow. San francisco, highs running in the 60s. New years eve, it looks like clear skies, no fog or rain right now. 54 degrees around midnight in San Francisco on new years eve. We need some of that rain to come back into the picture. Reno to lake tahoe still dry. 49 degrees. Yosemite 53. Notice the temperatures sunday. Temperatures close to 71 degrees. Watch out for these winds in the hills. We could see some winds approaching 40 Miles Per Hour for the east bay. So who wants to get in this drivers seat . The hot wheels from Silicon Valley and what it shares with the aston martin and the lamborghini. Police in Southern California trying to figure out what led to a crash that sent a car flying up a cliff. Crews rushed into to rescue the driver. Rescuers managed to free the 19yearold driver and rush him to a nearby hospital. He is listed in critical condition. Triple aaa says a Record Number of people will be traveling over this holiday season. 95 Million People will travel over christmas to new years. Many of those who choose to fly likely will have paid more than they have in years past. One spokesman said it was all a breeze. I didnt know what to expect. We left early for the airport. Here we are and theres nobody here. Thats a nice surprise. This is the fifth year for record holiday travel. Silicon Valley Company may have created the newest luxury status symbol for men. The tesla has joined the ranks of car brands like Aston Martins and lamborghinis overwhelmingly owned by men. Analysts said brands with mostly male owners tend to be more performance oriented and translate to being more rugged. For two reasons tonight will be a historic fight hunger bowl. The washington huskies will take on byu for the first time in college bowl history. There will be two female referees on the field. This is the last year the bowl will be held at at t park. Next year it moves to the new niners stadium. Tickets were told are still available. One San Francisco institution closing its doors for good. One of the stories that will vanish with it. A San Francisco institution is about to close its doors for good. The store thats been a mainstay for everyone. After more than 70 years in business, they have struck a deal to sell its property to a company that plans to build a Boutique Hotel there. The Sporting Goods store has been in business since 1939. It Sells Everything from goggles and dust masks to shredded foam and rubber. They wanted to know what kind of coat was she wearing. [ inaudible ]. Its having a retirement party. It will close after the first of the year. One more check on the weather situation. Outside right now the sun is finally breaking through the clouds. It took some time. 55 degrees. About the only time weve seen some clearing from the clouds in the bay area today. Low to mid 50s outside. Nice sunsets here for the next 10 to 15 minutes or so. Tomorrow well get more sunshine in the forecast. Highs a little bit warmer than today. A few more mid 60s especially up towards livermore and santa rosa. Another spare the air day tomorrow. We hope the winds are Strong Enough to push out the smoke saturday night, but not too strong that we have to see red flag warnings going up in the hill tops. Especially because weve had no rain. Thank you, rob. Thats going to do it for us. Nightly news is next. Well be back at 6 00. On the broadcast tonight, swiped. A big admission tonight from target. Pin numbers were taken in the massive security breach. Why the Company Still insists the information is safe, and why some experts arent so sure. Cut off. More than a million americans facing a tough deadline hitting home. Out of work, now out of time. Assassination. A key american ally in the middle east killed by a car bomb as syrias bloody civil war spills over into its neighbors. And polar express. A rescue mission at the bottom of the world. People trapped on a big ship at sea. Tonight the rescue team is trapped as well. Also, our look back at some of the famous names we lost in 2013